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Robert Dudley in a slashed, probably leather, jerkin of the 1560s. A jerkin is a man's short close-fitting jacket, made usually of light-coloured leather, and often without sleeves, worn over the doublet in the 16th and 17th centuries. The term is also applied to a similar sleeveless garment worn by the British Army in the 20th century
During World War 1 the black leather jackboots worn by the army had to be supplemented with puttees and ankle boots; critical shortages of either of these lead to the introduction of lapti, a kind of slipper made of leather or woven birch-bark fibres (bast) by peasants, for many in the Red Army. Both military and civilian leather boots, puttees ...
The soldados de cuera (English, "leather-jacket soldier") [1] served in the frontier garrisons of northern New Spain, the Presidios, from the late 16th to the early 19th century. [2] They were mounted and were an exclusive corps in the Spanish Empire. They took their name from the multi-layered deer-skin cloak they wore as protection against ...
Leather neck stocks based on the type issued to the Napoleonic-era British Army were issued to the regular army before the war. These were uncomfortable, especially in hot weather, and were thrown away by the men at the first opportunity to be replaced with cotton neckerchiefs, bandanas or (in the case of officers) neckties or cravats.
Uniforms for the War of 1812 were made in Philadelphia.. The design of early army uniforms was influenced by both British and French traditions. One of the first Army-wide regulations, adopted in 1789, prescribed blue coats with colored facings to identify a unit's region of origin: New England units wore white facings, southern units wore blue facings, and units from Mid-Atlantic states wore ...
Army Enlisted Men's Winter Service Uniform. The enlisted men's winter service uniform in 1941 consisted of a wool serge four-button coat with four pockets in olive drab shade no. 33 (OD 33), wool trousers, and a long-sleeved wool shirt, both in olive drab shade 32 (OD 32). A russet brown leather belt with a brass buckle was worn with the coat ...
The inaugural New York Fashion Week: Men's may have come and gone this summer without many locals noticing, but that doesn't mean New York men are impervious to trends. One look they have down pat ...
The puttee was subsequently widely adopted by a number of armies including those of the British Commonwealth, the Austro-Hungarian Army, the Chinese National Revolutionary Army, the Belgian Army, the Ethiopian Army, the Dutch Army, the Imperial German Army (when stocks of leather long marching boots ran short during WWI), [3] the French Army ...